US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 28 for "Tracking surgical items with prediction of duplicate imaging of items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,541, issued on July 28, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Tracking surgical items with prediction of duplicate imaging of items" was invented by Mayank Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin J. Miller (Mountain View, Calif.) and Siddarth Satish (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for tracking surgical textiles includes receiving a first image comprising a first textile-depicting image region, receiving a second image comprising a second textile-depicting image region, measuring a likelihood that the first and second image regions depict at least a portion of the same textile, a...